tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42845493305167904292018-05-24T03:40:37.696-04:00 The View From HereThis blog discusses issues of social justice (in an inclusive sense), civil liberties, human rights, other social issues, and offers thoughts on society and humanity in general from a progressive, feminist perspective.cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-27163104070850191902017-09-24T02:36:00.001-04:002017-09-24T02:36:55.285-04:00Peace Poem - Better Late Than Never!
Well, Greetings Dear Readers! It's been a while (so much I've been dealing with). But I haven't forgotten. In fact there should be another post up fairly soon after this!
But I was caught napping on this one. International Day of Peace was back on Thursday (9/21) and it slipped right by me. If anyone has actually been reading this blog, he or she will know that the past few years it's beencinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-63390146210243738482017-08-18T05:51:00.002-04:002017-08-18T07:50:25.661-04:00Free Speech Indeed?
Greetings again, dear readers. What a horrible heartbreak the situation in Charlottesville was - the bigotry of white supremacy so in-your-face and the loss of the life of Heather Heyer, who stood against hate. Surely we must all condemn the hatred and violence; then we must, as a society, come together to transform it into the America we know it can be. And our leaders should do better. No, cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-70013790148539436662017-07-25T02:44:00.001-04:002017-07-25T02:44:13.476-04:00Education Is...
Greetings out there! Again, I do hope that there are actual readers lurking, so don't be shy. I would love to hear from you!
So you'll notice the topic of this post is "Education." That is something I'm passionate about as a retired educator and daughter of an educator and a strong educational supporter. So of course I was stunned when someone tweeted an article on how many GOP'ers now cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-50425717092567166592017-07-09T03:58:00.003-04:002017-07-09T05:02:10.571-04:00Never Forget!
Greetings, readers - at least I hope there are some out there! This post is a bit different, but these thoughts came to mind, so here we are.
Well, just what should we "never forget'? Certainly, some things should be burned in our memories: beloved family members and pets, important mentors and teachers, moments which had an oversized impact on our futures. It's even been said you never cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-23920865534390290972017-06-27T01:52:00.001-04:002017-06-28T01:33:21.254-04:00Woman Still Emerging
Greetings, Readers - Some recent reports have made it clear: women STILL have a ways to go for real equality.
Some Reports
Let's start by noting that reproductive health care for women is under attack. Rabbi Leah Rachel Berkowitz argues that we must trust women with their own reproductive choices. Melinda Gates is advocating for reproductive and family planning services worldwide. And cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-11126247223788969422017-06-12T05:40:00.000-04:002017-06-12T05:40:40.546-04:00Moral Values? American Values?
Greetings. I know it's been a while, so here we go!
I'm quite sure that by now most of you have heard of that infamous speech by our nefarious Sec. of State in which he said: "Our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated – those are our values. Those are not our policies." He went on to say: "In some circumstances, if you condition our national security efforts on cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-84872184360341796712017-04-09T07:46:00.002-04:002017-06-10T07:47:54.266-04:00War - What Is It Good For?
Greetings again...What are we to make of this saber-rattling? To me it is unbelievable that ANY folks would support this, applaud this, and even say this makes our nutjob "Presidential" ( I'm glad Rather and some others aren't going along.). If THAT'S their definition of "Presidential" we all need to say what a CROCK that is!
Shouldn't a President show leadership in seeking a BETTER world.cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-41819028911907840282017-04-07T09:33:00.003-04:002017-04-07T09:33:59.582-04:00Is There a Shred of Hope?
Greetings. I'm not sure exactly what to say, but I'm just too emotional and heartsick not to write something.
I want to scream at people - look at the harm that's being done! I just cannot see how ANYONE of ANY sort of good will could be party to the mess that we're in. And it's a huge one - that even a certain nutjob's supporters should have seen coming. Our very democracy is under severe cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-47972577883713806372017-03-24T07:45:00.002-04:002017-03-24T07:45:16.796-04:00Let's Aim For Mutually-Supportive Relationships
Greetings again, Readers! You really never do know when something will spark a bit of inspiration. I was watching a nature show and the host at one point spoke about predator-prey relationships in nature. Yes, in nature we expect this, but amongst us humans?
Now please don't say you have not heard of predatory loans or predatory capitalism. I've tried to find a definition of "predatory cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-73426496978130151702017-03-22T04:03:00.003-04:002017-03-22T04:03:49.526-04:00What Did Our Nobel Laureate in Literature Once Say?
Greetings, Readers! Hmmm...didn't our latest Nobel Literature Laureate once say something about "the times..."? Well, changes do come for sure. I'm not always the most eager to embrace changes, but if you notice on the sidebar on right (or wherever in mobile view) there's a link to follow me on twitter. WHAT?
Yes, over this past weekend I joined twitter. It's really been quite an adventure cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-52001959103668399312017-03-12T08:43:00.001-04:002017-03-12T08:43:27.173-04:00What Tools?
Greetings. It's still hard to look at current events and not be ready to go into hibernation or something until things start looking up. We have challenges to our civil liberties here in the U. S., challenges to our social safety net (what's left of it), and even to our democracy itself. On top of that, there are concerns we are putting our entire Planet in danger by ignoring climate changecinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-74941440969313573182017-03-06T22:11:00.001-05:002017-03-06T22:13:59.135-05:00Alerts If You Haven't Heard...
So here we are again. The way things are now, there are probably alerts we should pay attention to EVERY DAY. This tends to make one just a bit tired.
We do, however, need to keep our eyes open, know what is going on, and ready ourselves to resist. Not that I'm much into marches these days, but there are many forms of resistance and each should do what he or she can. Commondreams.org (see cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-85334110722021095312017-03-03T03:53:00.001-05:002017-03-03T03:53:04.601-05:00Heartlessness
Greetings again. I really thought I'd let the last few posts sit a bit, but in reading the news (yesterday now) I knew I just had to post something about the heartbreak so many immigrants are undergoing. And it's not just here in the U. S., but in other places around the world as well.
I just can not fathom how these people can live with themselves while treating other human beings so cruellycinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-5062462640695345772017-03-01T04:08:00.001-05:002017-03-01T04:08:41.141-05:00My "Cacerlolazo" or "People's Address"
Greetings. Well, there was a speech last night, eh? I saw on commondreams.org that an act of resistance can be to write one's own "cacerlolazo" or "People's Address" to counter and resist the administration and its' policies.
The term cacerlolazo means "casserole" and the tactic is rooted in folks banging pots, pans and other utensils in noisy protest. OK, let's make some NOISE!
My own "cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-23469379738114475712017-02-27T02:15:00.001-05:002017-02-27T02:18:43.704-05:00Freedom Is A Journey
Greetings all, as we await March.
Well, again, you never know when or how inspiration will strike. If you haven't seen or heard of that nefarious Paul Ryan's tweet about freedom and Obamacare, Jon Schwarz had a fantastic take down. During participation in the comments, inspiration struck (but shhhhh - someone might figure out my TI commenter handle 😃 )
After mulling over the nugget of cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-50580381373503070712017-02-24T07:30:00.002-05:002017-02-24T07:31:41.937-05:00What About Keeping Our Cool?
Greetings all as Feb. winds down. You readers should know by now that I am a fan of Mysteries at the Museum. I enjoy history and really love it when they present inspiring stories, say of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, as I mentioned in this post (Persistence/Long Time Gone). Again, the show has helped prompt me to write a blog post.
It's hard to try to escape, even for a bit, some of the cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-33086716017459051352017-02-20T05:14:00.001-05:002017-03-24T07:50:40.607-04:00World Day of Social Justice
Greetings on this World Day of Social Justice, 2017. The U. N. has been observing this since 2007. The theme for 2017 is "Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work." I finally was able to track down their page and you can read more here.
I'm not sure I have much to say about the current theme, although it makes perfect sense to me. I would certainly believe that doing cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-8783109572802680512017-02-18T23:09:00.001-05:002017-03-24T07:51:38.737-04:00I'm In the Mood For...Troublemaking Visuals
Greetings again. Hope someone IS out there...
This time, to lighten up the mood just a bit, yet still make a point or two, I thought I'd post some visuals of thoughts about what I've been observing.
Excuse my relative lack of graphical skills, but the idea is just to see what I can do, make a point, and maybe even have a bit of fun.
First visual: I'm sure you've all probably seen that cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-56201391088370670082017-02-16T05:20:00.001-05:002017-07-24T02:09:00.073-04:00Yemen (Updated!)
Greetings... There's so much going on domestically, it's often hard to keep track of what's going on around the world. Not long ago I read the article at The Intercept concerning the situation in Yemen.
It's not at all pretty. Please do read the article. From the report: "As a result, the United Nations this week declared that Yemen is on the brink of famine."
Also this: 'And signs are cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-51030606621959222542017-02-13T05:49:00.000-05:002017-02-13T06:19:16.438-05:00Moral Resistance
Greetings once again on this day before Valentine's Day. How about some reading and musings to consider.
My homepage is commondreams.org (there's a link in my "side" navbar) and when I saw the headline of their story concerning the huge protest in NC, the phrase "Moral Resistance" really resonated. Especially after having read some days before, a wonderfully written and extremely thoughtful cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-1516209186105302312017-02-10T01:31:00.000-05:002017-02-10T01:31:29.354-05:00Our Use of Language
Well, greetings all! I finally thought I would write about something that has been bothering me off and on for sometime, and has recently been rekindled.
That is our use of language. I remember being upset when the 'right' so demonized Liberals and really attacked even the term. Now, I'm from the Liberal school, probably the more traditional Liberal school of folks such as Humphrey and the cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-64465599643626019362017-02-08T02:46:00.002-05:002017-02-08T02:50:46.870-05:00Three More Alerts!
Greetings once again. I just HAD to post about these three items which, if you haven't seen, should be checking out.
News goes so fast, it can be hard to keep up. But some things we really shouldn't miss. There are so many fronts now needing our attention, it can be hard to know how to focus. Still many things are interconnected if one really looks behind the scenes. Issues of bigotry, cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-50714475555967593942017-02-06T09:16:00.001-05:002017-03-24T07:52:31.657-04:00What We Need To Be (Poem) + Some Must Reads
Greetings again... anyone there? Please let me know; comments are gold, you see!
You know, you never know where inspiration might come from. I was reading an article at The Guardian about some Super Bowl (nope, didn't watch, don't care for either of those two teams) commercials which were - ah -slightly political. One, from 84 Lumber actually had to be toned down for broadcast. Just in cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-58321206204264597732017-02-01T02:16:00.001-05:002017-02-01T02:16:07.870-05:00Touchstones of Truths, Part III
Third in a special three-part series.
Greetings once again. If you've been reading along (and I really hope you have been!), we have looked at the idea of only apprehending glimpses of Truth. I have been proposing some touchstones of truths which I've observed. Our first touchstone was "Hey, We're All Human"; our second, "Things Are Not Always Mutually Exclusive." So we will now consider ourcinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284549330516790429.post-72049785135543848802017-01-31T01:52:00.000-05:002017-01-31T01:52:35.831-05:00Touchstones of Truths, Part II
This is Part II of a special three part series.
Greetings once again. Welcome to Part II of Touchstones of Truths.
In Part I, we set the stage by acknowledging that seeking Truth was a lifelong journey and no one human being really apprehends the "whole truth." Nevertheless, there are some observations of truths, I have glimpsed and am putting forth here. We considered our first cinnamonbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15619869445880921279noreply@blogger.com0